Knitted shirt



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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HOLMES, OE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

KN'ITTED SHIRT.

- SPECIFICATION `forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,616, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed March 28, 1889.

l To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that LJOHN HOLMES, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Knitted Shirts, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like letters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel knitted shirt, more especi ally for use by bicycle-riders, base-ball players, and athletes.

In my improved shirt the tail-flaps are tapered, so that when drawn tightly between the legs they serve or act as a supporter.

In the accompanying drawing the shirt is shown in perspective. p

In the manufacture of my improved shirt, the body a thereof, from the neck part 2 to the lower part of the body, asat 3, is knitted in any usual way, preferably as two iiat webs, suitably united to form the shoulders, and provided with armholes, in which, if desired, arms 4, produced in any suitable manner, may be inserted; The selvage edges of the two webs are united also at S, excepting at the armholes.

The lower end of the body of the shirt has wo narrowed tail-fiaps b, having selvage edges, such I'laps beingl preferably made of double-ribbed or double-cardigan stitch. The iiaps b, narrowed rather abruptly, as described, are long enough to be drawn closely in between the legs, one in 011e direction and the other in the other direction, the said aps acting as a Supporter, enabling the wearer to do harder work with safety, and also keeping do'wn the shirt.

I do not desire to limit my invention to the exact manner of knitting the body of the shirt just described, as the body may be knitted in any usual way and be of any usual shape.

What I claim is'- A knitted shirt having front and rear tailflaps-which are tapered and adapted to be passed back and front and overlapped between the legs of the wearer, to serve as a supporter and to keep down the shirt, sub` stantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN HOLMES. f

Vitnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, FREDERICK L. EMERY. 

